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Nikolay Advolodkin is a Principal Developer Advocate at Sauce Labs and the founder of UltimateQA. He is an internationally recognized speaker, AI engineer, and educator who has taught over 150,000 students across 190 countries.

As a Top 30 Automation Engineer and award-winning teacher, Nikolay brings deep expertise in AI-driven development, test automation, and CI/CD to audiences worldwide. His talks blend live coding demos with practical insights that teams can apply immediately.

From InfoShare in Poland to All Things Open in Raleigh, Selenium Conference in Chicago to DeveloperWeek in Oakland, Nikolay has delivered keynotes and technical sessions at premier conferences across the globe.

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Speaking Engagements

Keynotes, technical sessions, and workshops at conferences worldwide.

Oct 2024Raleigh, NC

All Things Open 2024

AI in Code, Testing, CI/CD: Revolutionizing Web Dev

Nov 2024London, UK

Audio Developer Conf

AI-Driven Development & Testing

Jun 2024San Francisco, CA

The Browser Conference

AI-Driven Testing: Using Advanced Tools to Accelerate Development

May 2024Orlando, FL

StarEast Conference

AI-Driven Testing

Oct 2023Virtual

API World Conference

ChatGPT-4 Unleashed: Revolutionizing Web Dev

Oct 2023Virtual

SeaStar Quality Conf

ChatGPT-4 Unleashed: From Idea to Deployment

May 2023Gdansk, Poland

InfoShare 2023

ChatGPT Takes on Web Dev: From Concept to Launch

Apr 2023Virtual

Testing Stage Conf

ChatGPT Goes Tech: A Web Development Tale

Mar 2023Chicago, IL

Selenium Conference

Using ChatGPT to Develop, Test, and Deploy a Web App

Feb 2023Oakland, CA

DeveloperWeek 2023

ChatGPT: Using NLP for Testing and CI

Nov 2022Virtual

TestJS Summit

Tiny Tests, Large Results

2025Virtual

Productivity Conf

ChatGPT Unleashed: Revolutionizing Web Dev

"Nikolay's live coding demo was the highlight of InfoShare. He took a complex AI topic and made it accessible to the entire audience. People were still talking about it the next day."

Marcin Kowalski

Program Director · InfoShare 2023

Topics I Speak On

Tailored presentations for developer conferences, corporate teams, and engineering summits.

AI-Powered Development

Leveraging ChatGPT and AI tools to build, test, and deploy production applications from idea to launch.

ChatGPTAI APIsLLMsCopilot

Test Automation & QA

Modern testing strategies, frameworks, and best practices for building reliable software at scale.

SeleniumCypressJestCI/CD

CI/CD & DevOps

Continuous integration and deployment pipelines that accelerate development velocity and reduce risk.

GitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerAutomation

Durable Distributed Systems

Building resilient, fault-tolerant distributed architectures with durable execution and workflow orchestration.

TemporalEvent-DrivenMicroservicesFault Tolerance

On Stage

Engaging audiences around the world with live demos and technical deep-dives.

Nikolay presenting on Error-handling at InfoShare 2023

InfoShare 2023 - Gdansk, Poland

Nikolay selfie with packed audience at All Things Open

All Things Open - Raleigh, NC

Wide audience shot at InfoShare Dev Stage

InfoShare Dev Stage - Full House

Back-of-room view of hundreds of attendees

Standing Room Only

Nikolay demonstrating App v1 on stage

Live Coding Demo

Black and white crowd shot at conference

Engaging the Audience

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